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Haven't actually done this. Got bogged down somewhere in the histories, which are very much rah-rah Britannia, to be expected when your patrons are Those Who Shall Be Amused and who when offended may Red Queen your head, though that term would not have been known to Shakespeare, unless we accept the hypothesis that Shakespeare (like, some would claim, Merlyn) travels backwards in time. There have been crazier hypothesises. Like, how could a common man write such uncommonly good plays, what happened to the originals (in Klingon), etc.
The list of plays read was probably somewhere on the 2009 MacBook (RIP 2022) and not in git that usually would be pushed elsewhere (maybe? very much not doing the monorepo thing here). Not important information. Probably it was most of them, from a glance at the titles, but my brain could be trying to trick me into not trying to read them all again.
A better plan is to focus on the better plays and re-read those as need be. Macbeth for instance isn't long and has some choice quotes. Technically these are best acted, not read, but here we are.
If you (or aspell) are wondering about the "hypothesises" do note that Shakespeare was fluid when it came to spelling—"The first purely English dictionary was Robert Cawdrey’s A Table Alphabetical (1604), treating some 3,000 words." (Britannica)—when he wasn't simply making stuff up. Plus errors in printing. Language does change over time, howeversomuch some attempt to tie it like Odysseus, to the mast. You may still need to know how to grammar when appropriate, in the event Those Who Pay You are not amused with your prose. There have been rumors of folks pasting the sonnets into commit messages, though that was back in the funner (i.e. less professional) days of computing.
P.S. aspell suggested "1) dwarfism 2) dwarfism's" for "howeversomuch" which may indicate that it was struggling?